Considering a neoproterozoic snowball Earth

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5417, 1999, Pages 1087-

  Christie Blick, Nicholas ^a   Sohl, Linda E ^a   Kennedy, Martin J ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID; SNOW; SURFACE WATER;

ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE; CONTINENTAL ICE; HYDRATION; ICE COVER; LATITUDE; NAMIBIA; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STURTIAN; WATER CYCLE; WEATHERING;

EID: 85045340864     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5417.1087a     Document Type: Note

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24. We thank L. A. Derry and J. Lynch-Stieglitz for reviews, and W. S. Broecker, P. E. Olsen and S. R. Hemming for discussions. This comment was written following a seminar presented by P. F. Hoffman at Lamont on 15 January 1999. We thank Hoffman for the vigorous discussion that his visit inspired. Our research in Neoproterozoic geology has been supported by NSF grants EAR 92-06084, EAR 94-18294, and EAR 96-14070.